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COMMONWEALTH v. ACKERS

343 Mass. 63 (1961)

175 N.E.2d 677

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN M. ACKERS (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

June 21, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Powers, Jr., for Ackers.

Robert L. Anderson, Assistant District Attorney, (Robert M. Ready, Assistant Attorney General, with him,) for the Commonwealth.

Robert M. Ready, Assistant Attorney General, (Robert L. Anderson, Assistant District Attorney, with him,) for Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, KIRK, & SPIEGEL, JJ.

WILLIAMS, J.

These are exceptions taken by one John M. Ackers in proceedings for his commitment to the treatment center of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater as a sexually dangerous person and an appeal by him from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On February 9, 1954, Ackers was found guilty on an indictment charging him with assault and battery with intent to murder and on an indictment charging him with the carnal abuse...

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